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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Finally watched The Wolverine....it was freakin awesome!!

I am so glad that there is finally a really good Wolverine flick.

Innit.

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Originally Posted by RiderSkyward

well, yeah. Maybe I’m reading your review wrong, but it comes across that you simply write it off as ‘I paid to see an Iron man film and all I got was Tony Stark.’ You also write off the ‘character study’ as just giving him PTSD, when there's much more to it than that (so the ‘point’).
See Tony is a cocky bastard and he suddenly feels massively inadequate next to aliens and ‘gods’. He’s a man that makes metal suits, and he almost failed to protect the one thing that matters to him. Feeling this, he builds crap loads of suits, trying to make each better and better, to cover any weakness or situation, and yet still feels like he isn’t doing enough. When Happy gets accidentally drawn into the fray Tony makes it personal by inviting them to his house (sure it was always going to get personal but until then nothing had been aimed at Tony). You call out a nutter, they’ll come for you. So his cockiness here sets him up for an even bigger fall. He mopes for a bit (he can’t hit the bottle as they did that in the last film…) has a bit of banter with a kid, who helps him realise that his suits are only as good as he is. He’s been relying on them, with all their strengths and weaknesses, instead of just using his head an being the best version of himself.
Hence the ending when he blows up all of his suits and removes his reactor/shrapnel.

If you found all of that boring then that’s fair enough, but to make out that the film does nothing is both wrong, and (from a review angle) misleading. It's certainly not perfect, I have my own personal problems with it, but not seeing enough Iron Man isn't one.

I understand Iron Man and Tony Stark are one in the same, but there are fantastic independent directors out there creating rich characters for their dramas, because their budget can't afford anything more. Now I'm not saying superhero films can't be profound or whatever else, but I come first and foremost for action I just can't get in any other cinema.

Plus, everything you said there is your reading very few aspects of what you stated there, is ever plainly stated in the film itself. And I didn't think the writing was good enough to read deeper into it, I didn't care.